My home office is, unfortunately but necessarily, a dumping ground for items that don’t fit the rest of the house. Right now, it’s holding five computers (three functional), two broken printers, the filing cabinet, a spare side table, an old toy chest (turned coffee table with a marble top), and my American Girl doll Kirsten, which my dad brought me when he came to visit last year. Just what I needed to store. Thanks, Dad. :-P
So I’ve tried to make my corner of the office feel more glam. Last fall, I made two plant silhouette paintings that hang above my desk. They were an improvement. But I wanted more of a focal point, so I re-painted an old floating shelf using leftover paint from my kitchen makeover, and hunt it just below the paintings, so any items that sit on the shelf overlap slightly with the bottom of the paintings. I used little knick-knacks to fill the shelf, and suddenly items that had been in my throw-away pile have a home!
I bought the shelf a frosted-glass oil burner from The Body Shop and picked up fragrance oils at an after-Christmas sale.
My aunt had given me these flower candles a few years ago. I love them, but they had no place in any other room. Now I have them surrounding a little manatee statue someone gave me, intertwined with a string of fake pearls to reflect light.
Now I have something pretty to look at above my computers.
Now onto the rest of the room…
